RCE on GPON home routers (CVE-2018-10561)

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Vulnerability

Many routers today use GPON internet, and a way to bypass all authentication on the devices (CVE-2018-10561) was found by VPNMentor. With this authentication bypass, it's also possible to unveil another command injection vulnerability (CVE-2018-10562) and execute commands on the device.

At the time it was written almost ONE MILLION of these devices are exposed to the Internet, according to Shodan.

Dependencies required

requests

urllib2

Tested on

Kali Linux

Ubuntu 17.10 Server

Usage

python gpon_rce.py TARGET_URL COMMAND

e.g.

python gpon_rce.py http://192.168.1.15 'id'

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